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  • PRIDE
    PRIDE
    MATTHEW TODD
    For 50 years, people have flocked to San Francisco for the annual Pride Parade, a beloved event that serves as a celebration and demonstration for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. Pride explores the history of the LGBTQ movement including events such as Stonewall and the global explosion in Pride Parades, and is a comprehensive account of the ongoing challenges facing th...
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  • FOODIE CITY BREAKS: EUROPE
    FOODIE CITY BREAKS: EUROPE
    RICHARD MELLOR
    A gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities in Europe to be a foodie in. If you are planning a European vacation, you need this gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities for foodies to visit. Want to know the best brunch spot in Berlin, where you can sample the finest pintxos in San Sebastian, or fancy tucking into the tastiest dishes in Copenhagen - Europe's ...
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  • THE ESSEX SERPENT
    THE ESSEX SERPENT
    SARAH PERRY
    London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming ...
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  • THE IDEA OF YOU
    THE IDEA OF YOU
    ROBINNE LEE
    THE SCORCHING HOT LOVE AFFAIR ABOUT THE MAN THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT . . . 'THIS SLAYED ME' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS' 5***** Reader Review 'SUMMER'S SAUCIEST, SEXIEST READ' Red 'THE ENDING . . . I'M NOT OVER IT' 5***** Reader Review''I'M MADLY IN LOVE WITH THIS NOVEL' Curtis Sittenfeld THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______...
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  • THE CASE OF THE KARNAK KILLER
    THE CASE OF THE KARNAK KILLER
    SEAN MCLACHLAN
    A scandal in America. A murder in Cairo. Sir Augustus Wall, antiquities dealer and amateur sleuth, is hired to track down a blackmailer who threatens the reputation of an American millionaire. When blackmail turns to murder, he must travel up the Nile by steamboat to find the killer. Joining him are Faisal, a street urchin who makes himself equally useful and troublesome; Heinr...
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  • THE REAL MADRID HANDBOOK
    THE REAL MADRID HANDBOOK
    RAB MACWILLIAM
    The Real Madrid Handbook is an entertaining compendium of fascinating facts, match coverage, stories, personalities and trivia from the biggest club team on the planet. Rab MacWilliam traces the history of Real Madrid from the early 20th century, examining its progress in the domestic cup and league, and analyses the impact that the Republic, the Spanish Civil War and the repr...
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  • THE CHALICE OF MAGDALENE
    THE CHALICE OF MAGDALENE
    GRAHAM PHILLIPS
    Reveals the discovery of an artifact that many experts believe may be the Holy Grail • Traces the journey of the Grail from the Holy Land to Rome and eventually to a ruined chapel in Shropshire, England • Uncovers new evidence identifying the historical King Arthur and his connection to the Holy Grail The popular Arthurian stories of the Middle Ages depict the Holy Grail as Chr...
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    23,65 €

  • TIMBERDARK
    TIMBERDARK
    DARREN CHARLTON
    With the tide turned against the Dead, Peter and the remaining community on Wranglestone prepare to leave for town, where the comforts of the world before await them. Could this be the home that finally brings both safety and unity for all? Cooper isn't so sure. He harbours feelings from that terrible night on the lake and worse, a secret ... codename, Timberdark. With Cooper...
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  • ISABELLA OF CASTILE
    ISABELLA OF CASTILE
    GILES TREMLETT
    1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...
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  • ERIC DOLPHY
    ERIC DOLPHY
    VLADIMIR SIMOSKO / BARRY TEPPERMAN
    "Eric Dolphy was a saint--in every way, not just in his playing."--Charles MingusIn his tragically short life (1928-1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing intensity and sonic exploration of his work on alto sax, clarinets, and flute derived in part from the concurre...
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  • BEFORE I DO
    BEFORE I DO
    SOPHIE COUSENS
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  • THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day. Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristicall...
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  • THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
    THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. ...
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  • NEVERNIGHT
    NEVERNIGHT
    JAY KRISTOFF
    "In a world where the suns almost never set, a woman gains entry to a school of infamous assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers that destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father's failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she wanders a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and...
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  • HORSIE
    HORSIE
    DOROTHY PARKER
    What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labor pains. Acerbic, pithy and vibrant, Dorothy Parker's writings capture the dizzying decadence of Jazz Age New York. Though Parker refuses to be swept along- she gleefully deconstructs its hypocrisy...
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  • WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH
    WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH
    SIGRID NUNEZ
    "A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalised with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common ne...
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  • HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS AND CARICATURES
    HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS AND CARICATURES
    MARK LINLEY
    Learn to draw the fun way! Like almost everyone in the world, you are bursting with raw artistic talent just waiting to be released. In a few deft sweeps of your pencil, capture the character of your 'victim'. Use swift strokes to create a face that has instant appeal. Exaggerate the features to make a comical caricature. Brighten up someone's day with your own tiny bit of magi...
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  • GREAT IDEAS V IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM
    GREAT IDEAS V IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM
    V I LENIN / VLADIMIR LENIN
    Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia. GREAT IDEAS. Throug...
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  • THE SPANISH ARMADA
    THE SPANISH ARMADA
    ROBERT HUTCHINSON
    After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries, culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Rob...
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  • ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT PRIDE
    ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT PRIDE
    CHESTER B. HIMES
    Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best stories - from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly disproves the existence of racism in Los Angeles to a chilling ...
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  • THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE
    THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE
    HARUKI MURAKAMI
    Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out,...
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    13,75 €

  • SILVER ELITE
    SILVER ELITE
    DANI FRANCIS
    'This dystopia has BLOWN me away' @emilymiahreads 'One of my new FAVOURITE books' @abbysbooks 'In my TOP BOOKS of the year' @amymaybooks 'I'm absolutely obsessed!' ALI HAZELWOOD 'Thoroughly addictive - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' L.K. STEVEN __________________________________________ WELCOME TO SILVER BLOCK - DISCOVER THE OBSESSION THAT IS SILVER ELITE. **PRE-O...
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    23,75 €

  • VOICES OF THE OLD SEA
    VOICES OF THE OLD SEA
    NORMAN LEWIS
    After WWII was over, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village on the Catalan coast. A place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tunny fishing of the summer, where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages, and made ends meet. They were deeply suspicious of all foreigners and consumed by the interest of their own anci...
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  • THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
    THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
    THUCYDIDES,
    'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides hims...
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  • STORIES FOR 8 YEAR OLDS
    STORIES FOR 8 YEAR OLDS
    JULIA ECCLESHARE
    A classic collection of stories by Michael Rosen, Alexander McCall Smith, Ted Hughes, Michael Morpurgo and others, specially chosen for young readers of around eight by children's book expert, Julia Eccleshare. Mary Poppins takes Jane and Michael on a topsy-turvy day; a boy watches over a beautiful swan... These classic stories are wonderful to share and enjoy with your child...
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  • HIS DARK MATERIALS: THE DELUXE EDITION
    HIS DARK MATERIALS: THE DELUXE EDITION
    PHILIP PULLMAN
    Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree amongscholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaitsher will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clansreign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will haveimmeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... ...
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  • THE STRANGE GARDEN AND OTHER WEIRD TALES
    THE STRANGE GARDEN AND OTHER WEIRD TALES
    ALEX KINGSLEY
    A demon who runs story time at the local library. A robot that guards nuclear waste. A vampire who gives relationship advice. Death's personal lawyer. The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales is a collection of stories that mix the mundane and bizarre, that both disturb and delight. From the creator of The Stench of Adventure comes a set of mystifying stories with an undercurre...
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  • COLUMBUS
    COLUMBUS
    LAURENCE BERGREEN
    He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all th...
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  • EMPIRES OF THE SEA
    EMPIRES OF THE SEA
    ROGER CROWLEY
    Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece battles, a wealth of riveting first-hand accou...
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  • ARTFUL
    ARTFUL
    ALI SMITH
    Adapted from the lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, 'Artful' is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought. ...
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    13,75 €